Honestly this whole thing is freaking pathetic and a really good example of how Bandai, Saban and its fans handle the Power Rangers franchise in general.

When Dinobot won the First Hall of Fame place in Transformers, it was controversial, unexpected, but eventually accepted and now celebrated. When Power Rangers has lesser known characters win a competition, Bandai rigs it in order to ensure that the only winner will ever be the person they want to win with the vague comment that they "located cheaters" and its supposedly acceptable? JDF whines, bribes and cheats and is rewarded with having a competition that he's losing rigged in his favour?

The Power Rangers fandom is freaking bizarre. JDF is clearly a douchey and egotistical man-child (and its not even debatable, this proved what a lot of people already suspected) with little to no acting skill and yet he is worshipped like a god, while the 21 Years of Franchise is completely ignored by the people behind the company because they're too busy bending over backwards to kiss his ass along with his fans. Its just stupid. Bandai and Saban clearly gives zero shits about anything either then MMPR, so its difficult to be involved and care in a franchise that actively ignores 95% of its history. I'll still watch the show and continue to comment on it and try to care, but this whole thing is sort of the nail in the coffin of the franchise to me.

I'm spitting the dummy JDF style.

Yeah this is really pathetic with them. This is ridiculous with how they treat their fans, and the franchise either.

I love that Dinobot got in the Transformers Hall of Fame and that's great they did that, I hear Waspinator and Megatron from Beast Wars also are a part of it too.

I feel and think like us Nerdlingers (I'm counting myself in this and I mean this in jest) are ruining it for the kids. Maybe some kids really do want an inferior ranger to win, or that non-special red ranger to get their votes, but every PR fan (even guilty of this myself) is rabidly voting for rangers who dont already have keys and such. This MorphinMadness shouldn't have put in the part that winning rangers get keys made. They should've just given out he coupons, and handed out the sweepstakes prize and keep it simple. The minute I found out winning rangers will get keys I was like: "Ah, geez. Us Nerdlingers are gonna decide this now, not kids." I'm not sure what's going on with the vote hacking, I sorta just got here, but it sounds sad.

But how are we ruining it for the kids if we vote for mostly newer rangers? Most kids that DO vote there are basically those who've seen Neo-Saban and the late Disney stuff. So I don't really think those kids would prefer, say MMPR Green over Dino Thunder White. The whole Tommy situation might make it worse for kids now. I do see why those kids might prefer SMF Red over RPM Gold, but why MMPR Red over Jungle Fury Rhino? The "red magic" might exist, but seriously, why should kids vote for rangers they barely know?
The whole Tommy merchandise thing is also adressed to older fans. Most kids these days probably don't even know who Tommy Oliver was- except those who've seen Dino Thunder, but those are all in their early teens now and most of them probably could care less about power rangers.

Not so much in the choices given, more so in just how much more control over the voting system we have as opposed to kids. We've got rallies, hashtags, bots cheatin' for some, JDF being JDF and kids have.... What's primarily, like you've said, fairly recent on tv. I've seen some posts here and there where people are urging others to vote against Troy in favor of a ranger kids most likely don't know and I just wonder if possibly maybe two contests should exist or something. One for older fans and one for children. I'm also confused why some people are really worked up about something like this when they've sworn off BOA. It's all good, just gotta go with the flow. Maybe some kids do want a key pack filled with already released ranger keys if it's of their favorites. Yes, it's a dumb idea, but kids want really dumb things at times. They don't know any better and do not put such importance on it.

at least titanium and phantom will be in the finals, unfortunately not Udonna and Rhino. they should have just gone to 50% for all to make things truly fair, which has been said by a few others.

In theory, yes. In practice, not always, in my experience. I've worked places that don't record IPs and places where they purge logs on a 24 cycle for a variety of reasons. They set this up to limit votes based on cookies which is the laziest way to have done it. Even if they can track IPs, it's not going to eliminate cheating from multiple machines. In all truthfulness, yes, they should be able to track cheaters, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are actually able to.

I'm totally with you on the not voting for a character not being the same as hating. People throw out the word haters like candy these days, labeling anyone who doesn't agree with them as that.

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Relative to this week -

A new episode of Ranger Command Power Hour is up! Ep. 6 - "Ranger Morphin' Madhouse" with special guest @rankal of @TokuNation http://foureyedradio.com/rcph006/
http://www.spreaker.com/user/fern/ra...d-power-hour-6

Join us for “Ranger Morphin' Madhouse” with special #RangerNation co-host Chris aka @rankal aka Kickback, owner of www.TokuNation.com and host of the @TalkinToku podcast!

We respond to Jason David Frank's (also known as Tommy) reactions this week in regards to Morphin' Madness, talk about Ranger celebrities and our experiences in the fandom.

Yeah, his fans are becoming bullies already.

Well guys, it looks like not all is lost yet.

Upon voting today, I noticed that while it is a small amount, Jason and Trent are starting to go on the rise in voting percentage. Now, we have until midnight (pacific time) to vote for them, and while Andros still hasn't moved from his 37% spot, he and the other two still might have a chance. It only took us one day to fix it last time, and I believe we can do it again.